rondel

Noun

Meaning

A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

Same as Rondeau.

Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rondeau madrigal aegis rondo ode elegy jingle round verse armor epic pastoral rhyme ballad lyric
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Antonyms

information formal mild prose rap elegant
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Hypernyms

poem verse form

Hyponyms

roundel rondelet

Anagrams

rondle Lorden Nolder

Examples

I have read a rondeau or rondel by Marzials in the Athenaeum beginning and ending "When I see you": it was very graceful and shewing an art and finish rare in English verse. This makes me the more astonished about Flop flop. Theo Marzials

In northern France, other terms for this type of dance included "ronde" and its diminutives "rondet", "rondel", and "rondelet" from which the more modern music term "rondeau" derives. Source: Internet

These included a relatively shallow orifice, which is most likely to have been caused by a rondel dagger and a scooping depression to the skull, inflicted by a bladed weapon, most probably a sword. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ronde rondeau Rondeaux rondelay rondelet rondeletia